The manuscript is titled 'Cases in civil law, and in the canon law. MSS. Collected at Cambridge by the Reverend Walter Johnson LLB. rector of Red Marshall in the diocoes of Durham SGSS. during his attending the lectures of the learned Dr Francis Dickens the Law professor at Cambridge. With others by Maurice Johnson of the Hon:ble Society of the Inner Temple London. And precedents, formulae, references and remarkes in cases of administration to intestates etc. MSS MJ No. CXXXIV'. The legal notes are in two hands, the first written in Latin from f. 5v to f. 12r and the second in Latin and English from f. 14r to f. 45r (rectos only). Ff. 47r-49v, 51 and 53r contain notes on the death of John Johnson (d. 1744), brother of Maurice Johnson, and copies of legal documents relating to the administration of his estate. Ff. 54v-60r are taken up with 'Accompts of Maurice Johnson Jun:or Esq. as Administrator of his late brother Jno Johnson Esq.' The volume has original foliation to f. 228 but all after f. 60 are otherwise blank.